Author Amy Shannon

 Anna Coleman gave her husband one more chance for them to work on fixing what was wrong with their marriage. Ted used that chance to try to kill her. Anna didn’t give up or give in, she fought to survive, and she fought for justice, as it became a personal struggle. All she wanted was for the justice system to properly punish Ted for what he did to her, and it took a lot of strength, perseverance, and support.

Read how Anna struggles to fight for justice, and deal with her personal issues from having been betrayed and abused by her husband of 13 years.

This is a fictionalized version of the real life events of the Author.

Warning: This book contains scenes of domestic violence and may trigger PTSD or not be for some readers.

This is an expanded version and Fourth Edition. (The regular third edition is sold separately).

After releasing the Special Edition, I realized that the stories still need to be shared. So I’ve updated the Special Edition (which was available in November 2021 only) and only three print copies were made. I have added new information about my entire ordeal.

Names have been deleted or changed for privacy reasons.

This is both a fiction book based on real-life events and a nonfiction book that tells my story. 

Truths transform into lies as emotions clash with broken memories.

Rayna Larson lost her entire life in a single moment. On the edge of impending loneliness, she sets out to find something ... something that will improve her new life. Clashing emotions and memories contradict each other, making Rayna wonder about what was and how she will get to will be. Soon, she finds herself nursing a mysterious man who literally drops at her feet. The connection she feels for the familiar stranger, Ethan Phillips, is something she can't even deny. Trust becomes a big issue as pieces of her old life fall into place, and yet, others disappear. Rayna wonders if she can trust herself, her feelings for Ethan, and any answers she gets about her old life. In some ways, Ethan is a big help, and other ways, he’s more secretive than she realizes, especially when she realizes that his secrets overlap with her own past.

Who took her life away and who wants to keep it buried and locked away in her mind forever?  

 Private Investigator Jake Dalton, a former Texas Ranger, has settled down in a small town in Oklahoma, set in his ways, and creating a new life for himself. Even when his former partner asks for help on some unsolved serial murder cases, he is still focused on what is rather than what was.

Then she walks into his agency and life, and turns it upside down. Dr. Agatha "Aggie" Constantine hires Jake to find her stalker, a stalker who she believes is also the serial killer only known by the name Icarus.

Jake finds himself drawn to Aggie, while also wondering who he can and can't trust, and pulling in all of his resources and contacts for help. The case that continues to haunt Jake may have just brought more than he bargained for, right to his doorstep, especially when torsos resembling his old case are starting to surface. 

 Twelve-year-old Veronica “Ronnie” Lawrence was kidnapped from the steps of her middle school, and taken by Dr. Shawn Channing or as she knew him, “Mister”. Channing kept her chained in his basement dungeon, while he enslaved her and kept her for years. With some inner strength she never knew she had, she survived, the torture and abuse. As she grew up, she truly believed she would never leave and see her family again. Then on day 3855 of her captivity, she was rescued.
Take a journey with Ronnie on how her strength keeps her alive, even when her body is damaged and broken. Can she survive outside of Channing’s prison-like manor? 

Best-selling mystery author, Tristan Wyatt (aka Lincoln McLaren) is in the middle of writing the third volume of his series, while also training his latest assistant, and deal with life outside of his writing. Link's neighbors refer to him as the creepy recluse that lives in the extremely large home. Link prefers it that way. His house assistant, Sally, does her best to keep him on task. Losses in his life, add to his already eccentricities. All of a sudden, he becomes a person of interest in a series of murders that are happening in his small town of Bridgeport. Not everyone understands him, especially his fondness for not wearing clothing. With his late wife, still in front of his mind, and his heart, Charlie wonders if she'll ever get close enough to him. She likes him as he is, even when as there is a killer out there, using the books he wrote, and the one he is still writing, as a murder map.

Link reevaluates his life and his relationships as more bodies are dropping, close to home. Will he revert to his old self and have a nervous breakdown, or will he be able to keep his sanity, as he becomes their number one suspect? 

 NYPD Detective Samantha "Sam" Lange, her thoughts and ideals scarred from the sudden death of her brother, falls for the charms of FBI Agent Parker Carlisle. Carlisle gives her choices with only one real option, do anything to keep her family safe.

Sam must leave her old life behind her in order to work for him, as a hitwoman. As Sam and Parker grow closer, she wonders if she can truly trust him, especially when she must go undercover in order to take down local crime boss, Jack Morrison. Parker and Sam both hide their personal connection to Morrison, in order to do the job at hand.

Emotions collide with trust and loyalty as Sam falls deeper and deeper into her role and Parker's bed.

How will her decisions affect both her past life and future life?

Can she really trust her heart and Parker or will his secrets reveal the worse kind of betrayal?

Unlawful Identity. Loyalty comes with a price. Betrayal 

 This is a collection of short stories, flash fiction and essays that I’ve written over the years. I don’t know if I will ever add more stories, but they probably would only be short ones. I am writing this part very slowly, as my tremor disorder has been diagnosed as neurological, my condition has worsened, and my hands shake almost all the time, especially when I hand write or type. Writing has always been a part of me. I have some unfinished works but hopefully by the time this book is finished, those stories will be part of this, and finished as well.

The last words of this book, are the last words in a story, in a book, to be read by the public, written by me.

Foreword Written by McKensie Stewart
Cover Design: Bil Richardson 

 Dorothy Wellington has a special gift, something that she never talks about, except with family. Dorothy can hear and smell the dead, some spirits wandering, some roaming, and those of her family members who still roam the family home. The family home, however, is not in your typical neighborhood or community, it is in the middle of the Village of Ballston Spa Cemetery. The house was built to be a meeting place, but then it was a family home, passed down to generations, which included the secrets within the walls, and those lingering over the cemetery itself. A recent widow, Dorothy is summoned by her father to come home. Pop wants help, not for him, but for a member of their family they thought was lost forever, and to help find a person who has been missing for over 200 years. Dorothy connects with her great-nephew, Samuel, and discovers he also has gifts. Are these gifts enough to resolve the past and give people some closure? 

 Guy "Russ" Russell is Plan B for whatever the secret government agency hires him to do. If Plan A doesn't work, they go to Plan B, for better or for worse. Russ is used to looking at the world through the scope of his rifle, but when a disheveled homeless vet "Jones" comes to his PI business without an appointment, Russ and his partner, Jean, are intrigued by him, and his case. Can Russ keep his secret life from his current life? 

The creepy house on the hill has a long, history and legend among the townspeople of Bridgeport Village. After the death of her long-time partner, Andrew Bridges, Edwina packed up her daughter, Andoria, and moved to the town of Bridgeport, where she had a job waiting for her, and Andoria, had a legacy of family generations and secrets to discover. Now, Andoria must face her family's past, see beyond the shadows that haunt the house, and figure out how to lift the alleged Bridges' family curse.

 A mistake that could cost Marva her life, she lands in a dark place where they are just merchandise. The merchandise were once women, who no one would miss or realize was gone. They were "merch" with no value, no worth until they were auctioned off. A ring of human traffickers, where only some know who the next person up in the chain is. Marva was taken. She was not on the list, but only in the wrong place at the wrong time. Her wife, Millie, knows she is missing and will do whatever she can to find her. After talking with her friend who works tech in the FBI, she learns about the horrors that her wife could be going through. Anyone and everyone is a suspect, especially after an undercover agent is also a piece of merchandise. 

 Dr. Edward Stone, head of a secret lab, conducts various apocalyptic experiments. He shares his lab with Dr. Julia Reigns but keeps some chaotic experiments to himself. Dr. Stone creates the first Human Artificial Intelligence, Geode, from earth elements. Geode’s quest for power triggers a catastrophic chain of events, causing a meteor to split and devastate the solar system and Earth.

The narrative then shifts to Chicago police officer Zeke, who recounts the aftermath of this cosmic disaster. The world is now a chaotic mix of burned corpses, tsunamis, and tectonic shifts. Zeke leads his mother and Josiah, a former cult leader and prepper, in search of a safe haven. They encounter others along the way, some of whom join their group, while others are beyond saving. The story explores whether Zeke and his family can survive the new, perilous universe. 

•   Amy Shannon presents The Ultimate Short Story Collection
  

This collection contains all of her short stories that are individually published in separate books, and it includes a couple of extra stories. The stories have a variety of genres, from crime thrillers, to a geological apocalypse to paranormal and supernatural.

Titles included in the collection

• The Backyard (serial killer, crime)
• The Bridge of Shadows (paranormal and supernatural)The 
• Forsaken (paranormal and supernatural)
• A Ghost's Writer (paranormal and supernatural)
• God's Hands (A geological apocalypse)
• Killer Lake (serial killer, crime)
• Plan B (private detective, crime)
• She (crime)
• Worth (crime, human trafficking)